On 5 November 2020 the European Court of Human Rights delivered a judgment in the case of Baz v. Ukraine (application no. 40962/13), in which it held that there had been a violation of the applicant’s rights guaranteed by Article 5 § 1 of the Convention on account of his illegal detention pending extradition to Turkey.

The judgment can be consulted at the official website of the European Court.

Oleksandr Ovchynnykov represents clients before the ECHR on a regular basis.